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I used to use photoshop all the time and I can't stand it anymore since I've been using Gimp. Gimp is missing a few features compared to photoshop, but overall, it just works better. I can do my editing twice as fast with Gimp than I can with photoshop.
If you want to see some sweet Gimp action, check out http://www.angryrussell.com
When I worked for Walmart, I would dream about UPC symbols because I was a stockperson for awhile. When I took calculus in college, I constantly dreamed about math. And now, I dream about programming and routing. Sometimes when my alarm goes off and I'm still tired I'll dream it's a bug in the code and I have to fix it, or that it's a router beeping and I need to make route changes to fix it.
Then I'll mumble something about it to my girlfriend and she thinks I'm on crack. I work too much.
What happened to the cool metal casing? This is totally shitty. Guess I'll be buying a toshiba or something else with a magnesium case. Too bad because we've been buying lots of Sony's for our employees because they look great and perform great. I'm sure they still perform OK, but would you want you sales people or representatives of your company walking around with something that looks like a toy? Not me.
Dell's latitude LS's are cool, except they only have an 800x600 screen. I had one before my VAIO and the screen totally sucked. And why can't they make a laptop with the trackpoint in the middle of the keyboard? Touchpads suck. I'm going to start my own company and modify current laptops by putting custom titanium cases on them, adding a trackpoint, and removing replacing windows with Linux. I'll make a fortune.
Say the scientists decide that this is a bad idea and don't go through with it.
Then say Joe Tinker throws together something with duct tape and old intertubes in his backyard that can launch canisters of these PFC's to mars and he does it. Since Mars isn't governed by anyone, can they stop him (aside from FAA launch regulations and other such things)?
I've been using mod_ssl. Much easier to set up, and when I tried Apache-SSL, apache would die unexpectedly and it was SLOW. No problems at all with mod_ssl.
If you make a spud gun and really want a kick, use starting fluid from your local auto parts store, it's almost pure ether. I've always used this in my spud gun and I once put an apple through a sheet of plywood. Make sure you only put about a half-second shot of it in, or it won't have enough oxygen to burn it all and you'll get a weak charge.
Make sure you air the cannon out very well between each shot or you won't get enough oxygen for a powerful explosion.
The gun I made has a 5' barrel with a 2" diameter, and a 4" diameter chamber about 10 inches long.
I'm an online merchant. ATT thinks I'M goint to pay THEM when someone buys something from my site. They can kiss my ass. I'm not paying them shit. I don't care if they're coming from ATT's network or not. For one, how are they going to prove it, magically decrypt the SSL transaction and read everything that goes on?
I don't possibly see how this could ever work. They bill me because someone else PAID THEM to access their network and use it to buy stuff from me? Whatever. I don't know what they've been smoking, but they've obviously smoked it all.
Think about this.... Dell sells MS products and probably gets some kind of discount. Dell wants to sell Linux. MS gets pissed and says the only way their relationship will stay the same as it is now is if Dell gives better performance stats for MS products than Linux.
100,000 hits a day??? That's barely over 1 per second. I've done benchmarking on a perl based shopping utility running SSL on a dual pentium 233 (not PII!) under apache and it maxed out at about 27 hits/s. The perl code was terrible also. Whack some PHP on there and it would probably do over 100 hit/s sec no problem. I don't know where they came up with that 100,000 hits/day BS, but they're obviously taking 100,000 hits/day off the bong.
IBM was demoing something like this a few years ago at the University of Minnesota in the CSci building. They had on P90 laptop running the display, and another P90 rendering to it. Pretty sweet. Although, you could only look in from the front.
Why not scrounge up a couple million, and make some scientists come up with a quick and dirty way to set Mir down on the Moon without breaking it too much. If they can set it down without breaking it, they will have shelter on the surface of the moon for future missions.
Also, that way, a part of history gets preserved forever, even if it does end up in a few pieces.
The article says the web was invented in the late 90's, and also says:
The average household PC has the computing power of a $200,000 machine in the 1950's
Um, isn't an average household PC thousands of times faster than any machine made even in the early 70's?
I've had DSL for the past three years, I was the second person to get it in the Minneapolis area. The first install I had was from USWest, and it was about a month overdue, but they hadn't even gone public with it, I just convinced them to hook me up early. When I moved almost 2 years later, it was a friggin' nightmare. USWest had no clue what their other departments were doing, my line didn't work reliably, and the customer service reps were complete assholes everytime I called. I kept a log of the time I spent on the phone with them, and it was 11.6 hours on the phone in only 2 weeks. After they swore up and down the reliability problem was the wiring in my house, they finally found that the box down the block needed some wires replaced, and then it worked fine. I had USWest.net as a provider this whole time, and if you can get through to the actual network admins, you can get something done, but the tech support people are totally brain damaged. My bill at my last place was screwed up from day one and they screwed it up worse and worse every month.
I just signed up again about a month ago at my new place, install was on time (about 2 weeks from the ordering date), and I went with goldengate.net. USWest seems to have cleaned up their act on the install side of things, and when it went down the other night, the tech I talked to actually went in and reset the equipment at the CO while I was on the phone, which fixed the problem.
Their windows client sucks. I installed it on 3 different machines, 2 of them locked up after 10 minutes and required a reboot, and the 3rd one rebooted itself after 15 minutes. Yes, I know windows normally does that, but it does it consitently with this screensaver thingy installed.
I don't even care about the olympics anymore. It's just one giant fucking commercial financed by telecommunications companies and sportswear. It's pathetic and it makes me sick.
"Now we cut live to coverage of the 500meter whatchawawiggy.....trailia takes the gold! Please stay tuned for 25 minutes of minutes of Nike commercials."
I was going to vote Libertarian, but given Ralph Nader's anti-corporate stance, I'll probably vote for him.
We use a 3dns for load balancing. There are several probing levels you can use to figure the metrics. We have it set on the least "invasive" mode, but we'll still get emails and phone calls from people saying someone is scanning their network. It does a couple of UDP probes to gather it's metrics, and some IDS systems pick it up and label it as hostile. I don't think it uses ICMP at all since routers under heavy load will give ICMP the lowest priority.
I don't understand either why it will sometimes recalculate metrics to a particular host so often. Once it has it's metrics, it should keep them for some amount of time. I assume that if someone from a particular network is going through the site being load balanced, it will continue to calculate metrics to give the user the best possible service while they're browsing around.
Oh yeah, incendentally, F5 networks has a product called 3dns which works like this:
1. client looks up www.whatever.com
2. client's nameserver queries the 3dns system that's authoritative for whatever.com
3. 3dns hands back a random IP for one of the different data centers, but inserts a very low TTL
4. 3dns tells the 3dns systems (or the BigIP systems) in the remote data centers to gather path metrics of the client's nameserver (using UDP probes, pings, etc...)
5. Remote centers send metric info back to the main 3dns unit
6. Subsequent requests for www.whatever.com result in being handed the ip for the logically (not necessarily geographically) closest data center.
I'm fairly sure this is how Akamai's system works. I couldn't find any patents on the procedure. F5 does have a patent on load balancing technology, but it looks like it only covers their BigIP product.
F5's 3dns has been around longer than Akamai also, so if they're claiming this as part of the lawsuit, there is prior art.
It really looks to me like a glorified squid setup. Squid does exactly the same thing (distributed servers that can talk to each other and serve up content that another server already has). Squid doesn't accept URL's the way akamai's system does though. As far as having the client directed to the closest Akamai server, I think that's all done in DNS, and Akamai does not own any patents like that. This patent comes close to the DNS part of it, but it also references a few others that may be better.
As far as I'm concerned, I don't think either of these companies really "invented" anything. Everything they are using is prior art. They just happen to use it in a different way than anyone else. Now if only they could patent their business model...:) Who knows, with the stupid patent people we have, they may just be able to slip it through.
Sonique sucks. I downloaded the windows version, the executable is tiny, but when it runs, it uses over 32MB of memory. Not to mention it was buggy as hell and the visualization crap used tons of resources. You know it's bad when the girlfriend complains....:)
They're apparently coming out with a version for linux soon, and the next version for Winblows will support "Internet connection sharing", so you can still use your linux box by just point to the crappy windows gateway.
As far as I'm concerned, these students have every right to do this and the school can't do a damn thing about it. The Civil Liberties union here in MN agrees with me.
Robert Fitzpatrick, a former student of Fergus Falls HS, made and distributed an "Onion" type paper at school. He was given detention for it. He served his detention, and then made several more issues of this paper. The subsequent issues were not distributed on school property but were left at a local Perkins restaraunt for people to pick up. He was given detention every time for excercising his freedom of speech off of school property. He didn't serve the detention because it was BS. The school wouldn't let him graduate. The Civil liberties union got involved and the school finally gave in.
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I used to use photoshop all the time and I can't stand it anymore since I've been using Gimp. Gimp is missing a few features compared to photoshop, but overall, it just works better. I can do my editing twice as fast with Gimp than I can with photoshop.
If you want to see some sweet Gimp action, check out http://www.angryrussell.com
When I worked for Walmart, I would dream about UPC symbols because I was a stockperson for awhile. When I took calculus in college, I constantly dreamed about math. And now, I dream about programming and routing. Sometimes when my alarm goes off and I'm still tired I'll dream it's a bug in the code and I have to fix it, or that it's a router beeping and I need to make route changes to fix it.
Then I'll mumble something about it to my girlfriend and she thinks I'm on crack. I work too much.
What happened to the cool metal casing? This is totally shitty. Guess I'll be buying a toshiba or something else with a magnesium case. Too bad because we've been buying lots of Sony's for our employees because they look great and perform great. I'm sure they still perform OK, but would you want you sales people or representatives of your company walking around with something that looks like a toy? Not me.
Dell's latitude LS's are cool, except they only have an 800x600 screen. I had one before my VAIO and the screen totally sucked. And why can't they make a laptop with the trackpoint in the middle of the keyboard? Touchpads suck. I'm going to start my own company and modify current laptops by putting custom titanium cases on them, adding a trackpoint, and removing replacing windows with Linux. I'll make a fortune.
Say the scientists decide that this is a bad idea and don't go through with it.
Then say Joe Tinker throws together something with duct tape and old intertubes in his backyard that can launch canisters of these PFC's to mars and he does it. Since Mars isn't governed by anyone, can they stop him (aside from FAA launch regulations and other such things)?
I've been using mod_ssl. Much easier to set up, and when I tried Apache-SSL, apache would die unexpectedly and it was SLOW. No problems at all with mod_ssl.
If you make a spud gun and really want a kick, use starting fluid from your local auto parts store, it's almost pure ether. I've always used this in my spud gun and I once put an apple through a sheet of plywood. Make sure you only put about a half-second shot of it in, or it won't have enough oxygen to burn it all and you'll get a weak charge.
Make sure you air the cannon out very well between each shot or you won't get enough oxygen for a powerful explosion.
The gun I made has a 5' barrel with a 2" diameter, and a 4" diameter chamber about 10 inches long.
I'm an online merchant. ATT thinks I'M goint to pay THEM when someone buys something from my site. They can kiss my ass. I'm not paying them shit. I don't care if they're coming from ATT's network or not. For one, how are they going to prove it, magically decrypt the SSL transaction and read everything that goes on?
I don't possibly see how this could ever work. They bill me because someone else PAID THEM to access their network and use it to buy stuff from me? Whatever. I don't know what they've been smoking, but they've obviously smoked it all.
Think about this.... Dell sells MS products and probably gets some kind of discount. Dell wants to sell Linux. MS gets pissed and says the only way their relationship will stay the same as it is now is if Dell gives better performance stats for MS products than Linux.
100,000 hits a day??? That's barely over 1 per second. I've done benchmarking on a perl based shopping utility running SSL on a dual pentium 233 (not PII!) under apache and it maxed out at about 27 hits/s. The perl code was terrible also. Whack some PHP on there and it would probably do over 100 hit/s sec no problem. I don't know where they came up with that 100,000 hits/day BS, but they're obviously taking 100,000 hits/day off the bong.
Who wants to try this in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area? I'm 23 stories up and have a good line of sight view to many places around St. Paul.
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IBM was demoing something like this a few years ago at the University of Minnesota in the CSci building. They had on P90 laptop running the display, and another P90 rendering to it. Pretty sweet. Although, you could only look in from the front.
"create the presumption that the computer-assisted implementation of an analog-world business method is obvious and thus is not patentable."
Already in use then. Think soda machine, candy machines, etc.
Why not scrounge up a couple million, and make some scientists come up with a quick and dirty way to set Mir down on the Moon without breaking it too much. If they can set it down without breaking it, they will have shelter on the surface of the moon for future missions.
Also, that way, a part of history gets preserved forever, even if it does end up in a few pieces.
MC Hawking rules!!!!
Let him drop a little science on your ass.
The article says the web was invented in the late 90's, and also says:
The average household PC has the computing power of a $200,000 machine in the 1950's
Um, isn't an average household PC thousands of times faster than any machine made even in the early 70's?
I've had DSL for the past three years, I was the second person to get it in the Minneapolis area. The first install I had was from USWest, and it was about a month overdue, but they hadn't even gone public with it, I just convinced them to hook me up early. When I moved almost 2 years later, it was a friggin' nightmare. USWest had no clue what their other departments were doing, my line didn't work reliably, and the customer service reps were complete assholes everytime I called. I kept a log of the time I spent on the phone with them, and it was 11.6 hours on the phone in only 2 weeks. After they swore up and down the reliability problem was the wiring in my house, they finally found that the box down the block needed some wires replaced, and then it worked fine. I had USWest.net as a provider this whole time, and if you can get through to the actual network admins, you can get something done, but the tech support people are totally brain damaged. My bill at my last place was screwed up from day one and they screwed it up worse and worse every month.
I just signed up again about a month ago at my new place, install was on time (about 2 weeks from the ordering date), and I went with goldengate.net. USWest seems to have cleaned up their act on the install side of things, and when it went down the other night, the tech I talked to actually went in and reset the equipment at the CO while I was on the phone, which fixed the problem.
Their windows client sucks. I installed it on 3 different machines, 2 of them locked up after 10 minutes and required a reboot, and the 3rd one rebooted itself after 15 minutes. Yes, I know windows normally does that, but it does it consitently with this screensaver thingy installed.
Gates has stated that he hopes the upcoming Presidential elections will put someone in office more friendly to the company.
Gates will be fuckity-fuck-fucked if Nader gets into office. Vote Anti-corporation
I don't even care about the olympics anymore. It's just one giant fucking commercial financed by telecommunications companies and sportswear. It's pathetic and it makes me sick.
....trailia takes the gold! Please stay tuned for 25 minutes of minutes of Nike commercials."
"Now we cut live to coverage of the 500meter whatchawawiggy.
I was going to vote Libertarian, but given Ralph Nader's anti-corporate stance, I'll probably vote for him.
We use a 3dns for load balancing. There are several probing levels you can use to figure the metrics. We have it set on the least "invasive" mode, but we'll still get emails and phone calls from people saying someone is scanning their network. It does a couple of UDP probes to gather it's metrics, and some IDS systems pick it up and label it as hostile. I don't think it uses ICMP at all since routers under heavy load will give ICMP the lowest priority.
I don't understand either why it will sometimes recalculate metrics to a particular host so often. Once it has it's metrics, it should keep them for some amount of time. I assume that if someone from a particular network is going through the site being load balanced, it will continue to calculate metrics to give the user the best possible service while they're browsing around.
Oh yeah, incendentally, F5 networks has a product called 3dns which works like this:
1. client looks up www.whatever.com
2. client's nameserver queries the 3dns system that's authoritative for whatever.com
3. 3dns hands back a random IP for one of the different data centers, but inserts a very low TTL
4. 3dns tells the 3dns systems (or the BigIP systems) in the remote data centers to gather path metrics of the client's nameserver (using UDP probes, pings, etc...)
5. Remote centers send metric info back to the main 3dns unit
6. Subsequent requests for www.whatever.com result in being handed the ip for the logically (not necessarily geographically) closest data center.
I'm fairly sure this is how Akamai's system works. I couldn't find any patents on the procedure. F5 does have a patent on load balancing technology, but it looks like it only covers their BigIP product.
F5's 3dns has been around longer than Akamai also, so if they're claiming this as part of the lawsuit, there is prior art.
Here's the patent they are fighting about.
:) Who knows, with the stupid patent people we have, they may just be able to slip it through.
It really looks to me like a glorified squid setup. Squid does exactly the same thing (distributed servers that can talk to each other and serve up content that another server already has). Squid doesn't accept URL's the way akamai's system does though. As far as having the client directed to the closest Akamai server, I think that's all done in DNS, and Akamai does not own any patents like that. This patent comes close to the DNS part of it, but it also references a few others that may be better.
As far as I'm concerned, I don't think either of these companies really "invented" anything. Everything they are using is prior art. They just happen to use it in a different way than anyone else. Now if only they could patent their business model...
Sonique sucks. I downloaded the windows version, the executable is tiny, but when it runs, it uses over 32MB of memory. Not to mention it was buggy as hell and the visualization crap used tons of resources. You know it's bad when the girlfriend complains.... :)
Freedom Network. Look into it.
They're apparently coming out with a version for linux soon, and the next version for Winblows will support "Internet connection sharing", so you can still use your linux box by just point to the crappy windows gateway.
As far as I'm concerned, these students have every right to do this and the school can't do a damn thing about it. The Civil Liberties union here in MN agrees with me.
Robert Fitzpatrick, a former student of Fergus Falls HS, made and distributed an "Onion" type paper at school. He was given detention for it. He served his detention, and then made several more issues of this paper. The subsequent issues were not distributed on school property but were left at a local Perkins restaraunt for people to pick up. He was given detention every time for excercising his freedom of speech off of school property. He didn't serve the detention because it was BS. The school wouldn't let him graduate. The Civil liberties union got involved and the school finally gave in.